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VOLUME 3 ISSUE 21 OCTOBER 10, 2008

Girls Having Fun at Kapalua LPGA Classic

OCTOBER 11 HEALTHY BABY CONTEST Celebrating National Children’s Health Month, Meadow Gold Dairies and Queen Ka‘ahumanu Center host a contest for babies between 12 and 24 months old. Valuable prizes such as U.S. savings bonds and gas coupons will be awarded. 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.

OCTOBER 11-18 FESTIVALS OF ALOHA, Kapalua Resort’s LPGA Touring Professional MAUI NUI STYLE This multi-island celebration pays “Come join me and fellow LPGA superstars like Lorena tribute to the people and culture of Ochoa, Ai Miyasato and Annika Sorenstam at the Kapalua Maui, Moloka‘i and Lana‘i with family LPGA Classic for a great week of golf, camaraderie, parties activities, concerts, arts fairs and parades. Highlights in Hana include and fun ...” - Morgan Pressel, LPGA a fishing tournament, Sports Day, Kapalua Resort hosts the first-ever Kapalua LPGA Classic Teen Night, Family Talent Show, Makahiki Games, Hawaiian Night, tournament during the week of October 13 - 19 at The Bay Lei and Floral Show and Lu‘au Finale. Course. Lana‘i City hosts a parade to the town square and ho‘olaule‘a on omen’s golf? Sure - these girls wanna a.m. and 11:30 a.m. - again, admission is free. October 25. To purchase a Festivals Whave fun and play some serious 18-hole Competition rounds begin at 7 a.m. on button, call 878-1888. golf at The Bay Course while competing for a Thursday and Friday, October 16 and 17. The $1.5 million purse. third round begins at 10 a.m. on Saturday and OCTOBER 27-31 Twenty-five of the Top 30 women players in the final round starts at 9 a.m. on Sunday. CPR/AED TRAINING CLASSES the world will make their way to The Bay Each professional round will be broadcast Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation Course for the Kapalua LPGA Classic live on The Golf Channel from 2:30 to 5 p.m. (CPR) and Automated Electronic Defibrillator (AED) training is offered competition, October 16 - 19. No. 1 in the so you can catch them on TV, if you can’t to all employees this week at the world, from Mexico, no. 2 make it out to The Bay Course. Daily tickets Training Center in Kapalua Resort. Annika Sorenstam, no. 3 , for these rounds cost $10 and a season pass is Certification classes are 3-4 hours in plus rookie sensations from available for $35 (a $5 savings). Kids aged 16 length and begin at 9 a.m. A one- and Shanshan “Jenny” Feng from and under get in free with a ticket-holding hour refresher course is available each morning at 8 a.m. (Tuesday, , are just a few of the 100+ players who adult. October 28 is reserved for Shop will join Morgan Pressel, Kapalua Resort’s What you should know about driving and employees.) To register for classes, LPGA Touring Professional. parking at Kapalua Resort: Beginning please call Security Manager Carol “It’s really a stellar field,” said Jim Monday morning, October 13, roadway Coleman at 665-8250. Felechner, Kapalua LPGA Classic tournament arteries in the resort will be closed to allow director. for ground transfer routes from parking lots Ho‘ohanohano: Service Kapalua Resort selected Morgan Pressel as to The Bay Course. All parking for with Distinction its LPGA ambassador and host professional tournament volunteers and spectators will be Congratulations to The because of her youth and impressive career to off Honoapi‘ilani Highway and a shuttle will Kapalua Villas and Gold date. Morgan in early 2007 won her first take passengers to the course. Visitors can Program Manager Tamara LPGA tournament, and first major take advantage of a complimentary shuttle McGee for reaching the mile- championship, at the Kraft Nabisco from four locations in the Ka‘anapali Beach stone of 100 completed Gold Championship. At the age of 18 years, 10 Resort to The Bay Course. This shuttle runs Villas! months, 9 days she became the youngest every hour between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m., major winner on the LPGA Tour. This year, she Monday - Thursday and every half-hour Hawaiian Word is currently in the Top 15 of the Rolex Women’s between 8 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. Friday - World Golf rankings and has recorded two Sunday. Go to kapalua.com for a complete of the Day LPGA career holes-in-one. schedule of departures. The ladies of professional golf will start Encourage your guests and customers to MANU their practice rounds on Monday, October 13 attend this inaugural tournament on the and Tuesday, October 14, beginning at 7 a.m. beautifully renovated Bay Course. If you have English: bird You can watch them on The Bay Course for any questions, please contact one of the Ilokano: billit free admission. On Wednesday, October 15, Events Management staff at 665-9160. Spanish: pajaro the Pro-Am tournament will tee off at 6:45 Po‘okela to excel; to exhibit superior workmanship Face-to-Face with . . . Mark Spurgin joined Maui Land & Pineapple Company in April 2006 as director, Supply Chain Management – a new role for MLP designed to strengthen the company through improved efficiencies. Mark and his wife, Cami, along with daughters Kali and Madison, moved to Maui from their native Texas.

What is Supply Chain Management and how management allows us to be proactive instead of cost-saving measures you’re looking into? does it help the company? reactive. Although pricing from our vendors can be hard In the simplest terms, supply chain You recently developed a new fuel purchase to negotiate at times and out of our control, management is how a company plans, implements program for employees; tell us about it. depending on the value consumers place on the and controls the materials, information and costs With today’s economic challenges putting product/service and are willing to pay for it, what related to a product or service along the entire pressure on all of our personal budgets, this is a we do have control over is leveraging our usage (or supply chain – from point-of-origin to the point- great and much needed benefit we were eager to purchasing power) with vendors. For example, we of-consumption. One of the most important pieces put in place for our employees. Working with can’t control the rate the electric company charges for efficient supply chain management is complete Maui’s two fuel suppliers, Maui Oil Company and us or the price of fuel at the station, but we can visibility into everything that impacts this chain. Hawaii Fueling Network, we negotiated a program control what and how much we use. For MLP, this means putting programs in place that allows employees who qualify (along with When was the last time you did something for (such as fuel, shipping, office supplies, golf carts, their immediate family) to purchase fuel for their the first time and what was it? bottled water, etc.) that give us the most accurate personal vehicles at approximately $.10 to $.15 per One of the most memorable was attempting picture of all the factors impacting our business gallon below retail. Employees can participate in kitesurfing. Not only did I learn that the ocean model. We’re a large company with many hands either or both programs. Those who are interested isn’t quite as welcoming to the ribs from a plunge working hard to produce the best products and can send an email to [email protected] from 15 feet in the air (my wife says the height services for our customers and guests. We need to with name and work location and we will send gets greater every time I tell the story but I don’t know everything we can about the supply side of them more information about the differences know what she’s talking about), I discovered our business model so that we can ferret out the between programs and explain how to get started. there’s a reason Texans wear cowboy boots – greatest efficiencies and cost-savings while How does the current economic slowdown because our feet belong firmly planted on the maintaining the best value. Solid supply chain affect our supply chain and what are some ground! Malama‘aina to care for, protect and preserve the land The Wonders of Pu‘u Kukui Watershed Preserve aui Land & Pineapple Company has Island, Haleakalā, Mauna ‘Eke, Molokini, Msupported Maui Coastal Land Trust Kaho‘olawe, Lāna‘i and Moloka‘i. conservation programs by donating a guided Along the 4.6-mile Pu‘u Kukui trail from hike-helicopter trip to the pristine Pu‘u Kukui the 5,788-foot summit of Mauna Kahalawai Watershed Preserve. to D.T. Fleming’s Haela‘au Cabin at 2,980 On a recent Friday in September, the feet, the group was treated to the largest lucky seven donors who had won this trip at a number of endemic greenswords blooming in fundraiser auction for Maui Coastal Land Trust the over twenty years Randy Bartlett has (MCLT) back in 2007, found the wait for a been working in the preserve. They also beautiful, sunny day well worth it. spotted a few flowering pu‘e or haha – Diane Lee, MCLT’s director of Lobelia gloria-montis – which is truly the development and outreach, remarked, “To glory of the mountain, the Maui endemic walk the pristine bogs and cloud forest geranium, daisy and two of Hawaii’s landscapes perched high above the Pacific endemic orchids. was an experience all of us will cherish for the PKW Preserve Manager Randy Bartlett rest of our life. I am so thankful that ML&P reports that the “triple-wide” boardwalk continues to protect and steward this precious construction begun in late January is landscape.” scheduled for completion before the end of After landing in the preserve by the year. In early 2009, the PKW team plans helicopter, the group experienced a once-in- Maui Coastal Land Trust staff and donors experience a glorious to host limited eco-tours for Kapalua Resort a-lifetime trek down the boardwalk, gazing at day on the Pu‘u Kukui Watershed Preserve boardwalk guests, residents and all company wide open views of Mauna Kea on Hawai‘i employees! Ho‘ohanohano Employee Po‘okela at Kapalua Resort To conduct oneself with distinction September was a busy month for the folks at New Faces . . . Welcome to the ML&P ‘ohana! Kapalua Adventure Center and Kapalua Adventures. Erika Daniels, Golf Reservations Clerk, The Bay Course, KLC Food & Beverage Operations exceeded their control plan for the first time and accomplished it during the slowest month of the New Places. . . Congratulations on your new position! year. Richard Butler, Jessica Bullock, Pamela Grove and Chef Carlos Jason Kanaha, Pesticide Controller, Kapalua Resort, KLC Martinez and their staff members all contributed to the ever-expanding food & beverage operation, from grilling literally hundreds of burgers during the Hawai‘i Disc Golf Championship to transforming the Adventure Center into a private, high-end special occasion venue and providing consistently high levels of service - imua! Jeska Martodam and Mark Maither, Kapalua Adventures’ mountain guides, came to the rescue of a jellyfish-stung guest. After their zipline adventure, a husband and wife went swimming in the ocean where the husband was stung by a jellyfish. When his wife saw that he was getting a bad reaction, she remembered that our Mountain Outpost guides are medically trained and quickly drove to Kapalua Adventure Center to locate a guide. Luckily, a few guides were there, and Mark and Jeska attended to the gentleman until fire and ambulance arrived. All ended well, and the happy wife commented that more resorts should have employees as well-trained as Flowering Lobelia gloria-montis along boardwalk in those at Kapalua Resort - maika‘i! Pu‘u Kukui Watershed Preserve, Sept. 2008

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